Improvement in washing-machines



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Specification forming part ofLetters Patent No. 184,764, dated November28, 1876; application flled I September 22, 1876. v

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, WILLIAM LOAN, ofBlountsville, in the county of Sullivan and 'State of Tennessee, haveinvented a new and Improved Washing-Machine, ot' which the following isa specification: l

Figure l is a vertical longitudinal section. Fig. 2 is a transversesection. y

Similar letters of reference indicate corre-y sponding parts.

My invention consists in an arrangement of cupshaped plungers orcompressors attached to a two-armed lever, which' is pivoted to the sideot a box for containing the clothes and Water, which is provided with acorrugated side and bottom, and in which the said plungers are Worked.

A is a box for containing the Water and clothes. Its sides are inclinedtoward the front of the machine, so that the form of the box may conformapproximately to the curve described by the plungers B. The interior ofthe front side of the machine is corrugated longitudinally at a, andthe'bottom ofthe box is corrugated in a similar manner. The box A issupported by a frame, b, at aconvenient height. B B are cup-shapedplungers or compressors that are suspended from the crossbars c, thatembrace the levers d by the rods e. Each of the cups B is provided Witha and described.

centrally-located pin, that projects a small l Y distance below thelower edge ofthe plunger. The levers D are attached to a rocking-bar, C,which is pivoted to the frame bat the back side. D is a bar attached tothe free ends of the. levers d, and provided Awith handles g, by WhichVthe levers d and plungers are moved up and down. e

Clothesto be washed are placed in the box A with a suitable quantity ofWater. They are compressed byv strokes from the plunger B, and by thesamemeans are made to rub more or less over the corrugations in the sideand bottom. The cup-shaped plunger B con` tains air, which is compressedas the plunger is brought down, and which by its elasticity forces theWater' through the cloth es, and facilitates theA operation of washing.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and l'desire tosecure by Letters Patentv A 4 The box A, having the inclined sides andthe corrugated side and bottom, in combination With the the levers d,and rods e, substan tially as shown WILLIAM DOAN. Witnesses: A

O. M. WHITE,

I. S. SENEKER.

plungers B, having the pins f,

